I Loved You First (Dabi X OC X Hawks)

Chapter 6 - The Four Armed Weirdo

Authors note - the photo has nothing to do with the story but I love it! 🤣

Kimiko's POV

After a long day of healing and trying to introduce Recovery Girl to memes, I was finally back on the train on my way to the hospital for my volunteer work.

Hawks still hasn't text me back and after checking the number four more times I'm torn between thinking he is just busy or maybe he took offence to the nickname 'Chicken Little 🐥' and now no longer wants to speak with me. Yeah, definitely not overthinking it.

The train came to a rough stop and after shuffling past other commuters I managed to make it to the hospital earlier than expected (there is a first time for everything). Using my security pass I made my way down the familiar route to the lab on the lower floors.
As I got closer to the lab, the sound of muffled classical music filled my ears and my heart sunk as I realised Kenji must have been working today.

Kenji was one of the doctors I worked with to see if my quirk could be harnessed as a cure for ailments which medical means haven't been able to treat. A four armed eccentric, balding, middle age man who sometimes took experimentation too far. That wouldn't bother me so much but he had the unfortunate ability to unintentionally insult whoever's he was talking to.

I pushed the door open being greeted with a strong iron odour and the crescendo of an orchestra blasting from a small pink mp3 player from the early 2000s.

"Hello Kimiko! You look awful! Long day?" Kenji asks looking at me whilst his four arms continue to shuffle about the papers and petri dishes on the table.

"Hey Kenji and not really. This is just my face" I smiled already feeling my self confidence diminish.

"Oh. Pity. But I suppose it cannot be helped!" He said cheerfully looking back at the petri dish containing some kind of lilac liquid.

I popped my bag onto the seat in the corner before resting on the medical bed which lay in the centre of the room.

I had gotten used to the testing process after 3 years. I would sit on the bed, extend my arm, let them draw blood and listen to any updates or new ideas they may have on how my quirk can be extracted and utilised. The team consisted of 3 doctors. Taku Shinso the sleep deprived empath, Umi Ito the lovable quirkless intern and Kenji Kureijī the four armed eccentric with no social skills.

"HAHAHAHA IT WORKS!" Kenji screamed clapping his four hands and smiling so wide his cheeks looked about to rip.

"Umm Kenji, what's going on?" I ask hesitantly, having nearly jumped out of my seat.

Kenji looked up, seemingly having forgotten that I was here.
"Look! Look at my masterpiece!" He gushed indicating to the dishes on the table.

I got up and walked over to the dishes to see why Kenji was practically bouncing on the spot.
One dish had the same lilac substance in it whilst the other containing what looked to be blood, rested neatly in a microscope. I looked through the microscope expecting to see something that would make sense but found nothing but standard blood.

"It's blood?" I say looking up at Kenj who was still giggling and giving himself a pat on the back with one of his arms.

"Of course it is you silly girl! Isn't it amazing?!" He giggled looking at me like I was stupid.

"Why is that so special and what is the purple stuff?" I asked growing frustrated.

"That 'purple stuff' as you so kindly put it is you! Well an extract from your blood! And it just eradicated the HIV within that blood!" He exclaimed jumping up and down in his pink Doc Martins before shaking his own hands in congratulations.

(Authors note: obviously I am not a doctor and don't know if HIV can be detected via microscope but for the sake of the story let's just say it does)

I opened my mouth to speak but shut it again immediately. I don't know what to say. I spent my days healing broken bones and curing migraines but my quirk could finally be used for something life changing. I couldn't help myself. I started crying.

"Oh. Your eyes are leaking. Would you like me to extract a sample from your tear duct?" Asked Kenji as he moved slowly towards me swab at the ready.

"No no! I'm just happy crying!" I said moving back slowly, still overwhelmed.

"Oh. Right. I forgot people did that. Well can you make it stop? You look unsightly" he spoke looking mildly uncomfortable.
And there goes my happy moment.

"Thanks Kenji" I mumble sarcastically.

"You are welcome" he replied immediately, brushing off his lab coat that was littered with My Little Pony badges.

"You can leave early today. I have enough blood samples to work with and I would like to run more tests on this discovery."

"Oh. Sure. Bye Kenji, have a nice evening!" I say, ignoring the fact that I sat on a crowded bus to get here only to be dismissed by the lab crazy guy.

"Oh I intend to" he mumbled creepily as he put thick goggles over his eyes. At that I left the lab before it would get any worse, the sound of classical music growing fainter as I closed the door and briskly walked away.

As I was walking out the staff side door of the hospital I colided with the firm chest of a tall figure, clad in a black hoodie making his way in. He let out a low his at the contact, reterating slightly back to look at me under the shadow of his hood.

"Sorry, I didn't see you there!" I smiled awkwardly hoping I didn't appear rude to what was probably a socially awkward intern.

"It's fine" he said with a deep and raspy voice. I felt like I had heard it before but at the same time it sounded like he smoked 50 cigarettes a day and I would definitely have remembered that voice. He stepped aside to let me pass and I mummbled out a 'thank you' before he rushed inside and locked the door behind him .

Although I couldn't see his face with his hood up, I did make note of his badly scarred hands. They looked painful, the skin purple was shrivelled and held in place with staples. Maybe it's related to his quirk, or some kind of body modification? I don't know but I'm not about to ask and risk offending him. I straightened out my bag and headed home whilst it was still light, not wanting a repeat of last night's events.